The Chabad seminar at the International School for Holocaust studies concluded Tuesday, leaving the participants of the first such undertaking, in high spirits and with a new sense of mission. The group spent nine days in intensive study, in a course designed specifically for them, featuring carefully selected lecturers and strongly religious underpinnings.
Benzion and Faigy (nee Grossbaum) Treitel (Crown Heights)
Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.
Photos of the L’Chaim of Zalmi Futerfas (Crown Heights) and Yehudis Kaminetski (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) at the JCM.
A youth club in the economically distressed southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat received 10 new computers from Intel, a gift that has given more opportunities for 85 children from the surrounding area to relax with their peers at the local Chabad House.
Aryeh and Etty Schwartz (Crown Heights)
Ephraim Piperno (Los Angeles, CA) and Djorah Ouaknin (Yerres, France)
Yossi Deutsch (Israel/France) and Mushki Oirechman (Krayot, Israel)
Yakov (ben Dovid) Feldman (Crown Heights) and Chana Devorah Bogomilsky (Short Hills, NJ)
Both Chief Rabbis of France and Paris Gilles Bernheim and David Meshash were all praises for Beth Lubavitch and Head Shliach Rabbi Shmuel Azimov.
Halacha and the Parasha – Parashas Vayikra
The New York Daily News featured a list of doughnut shops in the Brooklyn section, and titled them as the best of the borough. Topping the list was Crown Heightses Gombos Heimishe bakery.
At the NHL’s Florida Panthers hockey game this past Sunday, all 15,685 fans learned something Jewish. At a pre-game pre-Purim bash at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, hosted by South Florida Chabad Centers sponsored free video games, pony rides, face painting, a giant inflatable slide and an obstacle course. Jewish music filled the air, jugglers and clowns entertained, and Purim themes prevailed.
NEW YORK [NBC] — Legislators on Long Island are pushing a new bill that would ban smoking in a car when there is a minor present.
CANADA — A city teen who admitted spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue and another Jewish memorial won’t be sentenced until he can meet with a Holocaust survivor.
Two festive dinner parties with students, alumni and Jewish leaders ushered in celebrations marking a quarter-century of operations at Northwestern University’s Tannenbaum Chabad House.
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